Jim Snee

Jim Snee is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods, a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 75 countries worldwide. Hormel Foods is a member of the S&P 500 Index and has been designated a S&P 500 Dividend King. Its brands include Planters^®, SKIPPY^®, SPAM^®, Hormel^® Natural Choice^®, Applegate^®, Justin’s^®, Columbus^®, WHOLLY^® Guacamole, Hormel^® Black Label^® and more than 30 other beloved brands.

Jim is only the 10th president and chief executive officer in the company’s history. During his tenure as CEO, he has led the company’s continuing evolution as a global branded food company and its growing reputation as an award-winning corporate citizen by focusing on the food the company makes and the difference it makes in the world. Under Jim’s leadership, the company has been named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, honored as on the one of the best companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report, named to the annual Drucker Institute Management Top 250 List of America’s Best-Run Companies; recognized as one of Barron’s Most Sustainable U.S. Companies and named as one of the World’s Best Companies by TIME magazine. In 2022, Jim was named the 2022 Responsible CEO of the Year for transformative leadership by 3BL Media.

His career with Hormel Foods spans more than a quarter century. He joined the company in 1989 and assumed roles of increasing responsibility throughout its divisions and at the company’s global headquarters. Jim was named vice president of affiliated business units in 2008, and in 2011 he advanced to leader of Hormel Foods International, overseeing the company’s growing global portfolio. He was named president and chief operating officer in October 2015 and chief executive officer in October 2016. He was elected chairman of the board in October 2017.

Jim is active in numerous industry and nonprofit boards and organizations, including the Republic Services (NYSE: RSG) board of directors and the executive board for the Thielen Foundation.

Jim earned a bachelor of arts degree in marketing from New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, N.M.) and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has also participated in Harvard Business School’s executive leadership and management programs.